The Hartford Hospital Fire: Inferno on the 9th Floor

On December 8, 1961, a devastating fire engulfed the ninth floor of Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. Started by discarded cigarette ash dropped down a trash chute, the fire took the lives of sixteen individuals including patients, visitors, nurses, employees and one physician and changed fire codes and building regulations for hospitals nationwide. The Hartford Hospital Fire: Inferno on the 9th Floor, premiering Thursday, January 26 at 8:30 p.m. on Connecticut Public Television (CPTV) with an encore broadcast on Sunday, January 29 at 6 p.m., is a new documentary that tells the harrowing story of that day through the eyes of the people who survived it. Through interviews and archival photos and footage, the documentary created to commemorate the event's 50th anniversary, reveals step-by-step the collision of unfortunate events that led to one of the worst hospital fires in American history.